‘Angry over personal comments, constable had shot Praveen’
: Ashish Mishra, constable attached with the Sitapur police, had opened fire on Praveen Singh, the son of a murder accused, after he allegedly got angry over comments and taunts on his personality and physical ability, said senior police officials on Thursday.
The 2016 batch police constable Mishra, who was deployed on the security of the murder accused Dhruv Singh, had shot dead Singh’s son with a countrymade pistol near the gate of a residential locality behind Ram Manohar Lohia hospital under the Vibhuti Khand police station limits in Lucknow on Wednesday afternoon. Initially, the constable floated the theory that he killed Praveen in self defence.
Senior police officials on Thursday said during interrogation it had come to fore that the constable’s claim of attacking Praveen in self-defence was false.They said the investigation had not revealed any such circumstance where Praveen was found causing any physical harm to the constable.
The deceased, however, used to make personal comments on him. “We have found multiple evidence of the constable getting treated himself for his physical inability and he was stressed over strained relations with his wife,” said officials. A senior police official privy to the investigation said the police had found multiple prescriptions of the constable’s treatment from his belongings.
He said the constable revealed the entire story and stated that he was irked with the comments of Praveen, with whom he had shared his personal problems while staying with him at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where the latter’s father was being treated for renal disease for past 15 days.
The official said the constable was married recently on May 13 and was suspecting his wife of having relation with some other person
“The constable has shared all these personal details with Parveen, who started taunting him in front of others. Even on Wednesday afternoon, the constable and the deceased had a spat over the same reason after which he opened fire,” said the official.